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Okay, I managed to rediscover the info someone had posted about the contents of the Galaxy Memory Drama CD that covered the history that TV Sheryl and TV Grace had together.

Spoiler for Repost of summary.:

-We have confirmation that Sheryl is indeed Mao's grand daughter.
-Sheryl is the object of Grace's revenge against Mao (yes, we all know this, but there you go, straight from the horse's mouth).
-It appears Sheryl's parents were killed by Grace and the other entities within her for going against them (for the Parallel Thought Network, I assume).
-The other entities knew about Sheryl being in the slums but kept her there for a while just for the sadistic joy of watching her suffer. Grace herself did not know about this until the other entities asked her opinion on "what else was there to do with Mao's grand daughter?"
-Grace then took Sheryl for the Fairy9 project, deliberately infecting her with the V-type virus. Within this sequence, there's a very touching scene where a young Sheryl asks Grace to hold her hand while going through a seemingly painful experimentation process. T_T
-It seems that when one is injected with the V-type virus, there is a backlash of LOTS of pain. Sheryl lived through that and is known to be the only survivor of the process. Ergo, Sheryl was considered to be (almost) a success that's why Grace and the other entities had such high hopes for her.
-Grace admits that she has developed affection/feelings for Sheryl over the past 10 years.
-Sheryl genuinely looks up to Grace not only as her manager, but her one true friend and older sister.
-However, upon the discovery that the Fairy9 project is a failure, Grace decides to reprogram herself. She knew her feelings for Sheryl would jeopardize their ambitions.
-Grace, right before reprogramming utters some final words: "Goodbye, my beloved Fairy."

Still wondering about a few things though. Is it ever clarified why Sheryl ended up becoming an idol? For some reason I'm under the impression that Grace came up with the idea after hearing a young Sheryl singing Totsugeki Love Heart, but I'm not really entirely sure where I got that impression, other than it having something I thought someone said about this:

Is there anything about how Sheryl ended up with her mom's earrings? KITG is an alternate continuity and I never particularly liked its explanation of that issue.

Sheryl didn't seem as close to Grace in the TV series as this Drama CD indicates she was. Then again the TV series was kind of vague about Sheryl's history, which is probably part of why I'm so interested in this kind of stuff.

I also find it odd that Sheryl's parents were killed for opposing Grace and her cabal rather than just because they were related to Mao. It seems odd that they'd even know anything about Grace's plans.

Okay, I managed to rediscover the info someone had posted about the contents of the Galaxy Memory Drama CD that covered the history that TV Sheryl and TV Grace had together.

Spoiler for Repost of summary.:

-We have confirmation that Sheryl is indeed Mao's grand daughter.
-Sheryl is the object of Grace's revenge against Mao (yes, we all know this, but there you go, straight from the horse's mouth).
-It appears Sheryl's parents were killed by Grace and the other entities within her for going against them (for the Parallel Thought Network, I assume).
-The other entities knew about Sheryl being in the slums but kept her there for a while just for the sadistic joy of watching her suffer. Grace herself did not know about this until the other entities asked her opinion on "what else was there to do with Mao's grand daughter?"
-Grace then took Sheryl for the Fairy9 project, deliberately infecting her with the V-type virus. Within this sequence, there's a very touching scene where a young Sheryl asks Grace to hold her hand while going through a seemingly painful experimentation process. T_T
-It seems that when one is injected with the V-type virus, there is a backlash of LOTS of pain. Sheryl lived through that and is known to be the only survivor of the process. Ergo, Sheryl was considered to be (almost) a success that's why Grace and the other entities had such high hopes for her.
-Grace admits that she has developed affection/feelings for Sheryl over the past 10 years.
-Sheryl genuinely looks up to Grace not only as her manager, but her one true friend and older sister.
-However, upon the discovery that the Fairy9 project is a failure, Grace decides to reprogram herself. She knew her feelings for Sheryl would jeopardize their ambitions.
-Grace, right before reprogramming utters some final words: "Goodbye, my beloved Fairy."

Still wondering about a few things though. Is it ever clarified why Sheryl ended up becoming an idol? For some reason I'm under the impression that Grace came up with the idea after hearing a young Sheryl singing Totsugeki Love Heart, but I'm not really entirely sure where I got that impression, other than it having something I thought someone said about this:

Is there anything about how Sheryl ended up with her mom's earrings? KITG is an alternate continuity and I never particularly liked its explanation of that issue.

Sheryl didn't seem as close to Grace in the TV series as this Drama CD indicates she was. Then again the TV series was kind of vague about Sheryl's history, which is probably part of why I'm so interested in this kind of stuff.

I also find it odd that Sheryl's parents were killed for opposing Grace and her cabal rather than just because they were related to Mao. It seems odd that they'd even know anything about Grace's plans.

Sheryl always liked singing even as a child it was by hearing her sing that Grace got the idea to make something of it.

As for Sheryl's parents, we have no idea how she ended up with her mother's earring.

Sheryl always liked singing even as a child it was by hearing her sing that Grace got the idea to make something of it.

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Question how well do you understand Japanese when it is spoken?

Yeah, that fits with what I seem to remember hearing. So Grace basically discovered Sheryl's love of singing and decided to work it into her plans? (I don't suppose it's ever stated why she thinks making Sheryl into an idol serves her purposes?)

As for my Japanese comprehension -it's pretty pathetic for someone who has been watching subtitled anime as long as I have. In fact it's not much better than non existant. Sorry.

Minus thirty actually, assuming she's seventeen at the start of Frontier. Keep in mind her Birthday is late in the year, well after Alto's.

Also, does anyone know what sort of etiquette is considered customary with regards to posting stuff from Pivix to other places? There's a really cute birthday picture someone did for Sheryl that I'd like to bring over, but I'm wondering if I should try to ask permission from the artist first. Is there any way to tell whether it's okay to post something elsewhere?

I don't think anyone minds, but I suppose you could just post the link if you're not certain about having it show up here. Their stuff generally won't be on pixiv if they didn't want people to see it on the Internets.